Dominique had a car accident while driving over a bridge and thereafter developed an intense phobia of driving over bridges. In
an effort to cure Dominique's phobia, a psychologist gradually motivated him to drive over bridges. After many sessions of having nonthreatening experiences while driving over bridges, Dominique's phobia was cured. This is an example of ______.
Extinction: In psychology, the term extinction refers to the process being used in ABA i.e, applied behavioral analysis in which the reinforcement is provided for the specific problem behavior is discontinued to eliminate the re-occurrence of such negative behaviors.
In other words, it refers to the gradual or slow weakening of a particular conditioned response that leads to the disappearing behavior i.e, the conditioned behavior stops.
In the question above, the psychologist helped Dominique by motivating to drive, hence Dominique's phobia was cured, and is an example of extinction.
Stereotype Threat or Stereotype Vulnerability is a situation where people are or feel at risk of conforming to the stereotypes of their social group. Since its introduction in the academic literature, the threat of stereotype has become one of the most studied subjects in the field of social psychology.
sight is the most important sense we use, We perceive up to 80% of all impressions by means of our sight. And if other senses such as taste or smell stop working, sight is best to protect us from danger.
